Manziel had a rocky performance in his second preseason game, completing just 7 of 16 throws for 65 yards, although he added a late touchdown. Following one of those incompletions, the Washington bench let him have it, and he responded with the middle finger.

Reactions to the incident varied. Members of the Redskins team, a bit unsurprisingly, ate it up.

"It was hilarious," linebacker Brian Orakpo told reporters, via ESPN.com's John Keim. "We were messing with him a little bit, just saying this ain't college and stuff like that. We were having a little fun. Manziel flipped us off. It was something funny. We were all laughing on the sidelines."

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In the future, he'll need to keep his composure better.

The kind of offseason exposure he has received is going to make him target No. 1 for opposing teams' trash talk, and this kind of reaction will only make it worse. Once players see they can get under his skin, they won't relent. A middle-finger flip is hardly a big deal, but it could be seen to some opponents as a sign of mental weakness.

Moreover, as he continues to battle Brian Hoyer to overtake the team's starting spot, avoiding these kinds of distractions would be best for all.

This is Johnny Football we're talking about, though. Distractions have seemingly become part of the package.